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You’re not the only one spending fewer summer weekends watching other people get married—but don’t worry, the weddings you’re still invited to might feel a little more special these days.
Fewer Americans are getting married, and the ones who still are have scaled back their weddings. Their nuptials are becoming smaller, though not necessarily cheaper, affairs.
Many couples are waiting longer and longer to schedule their weddings. In 2015, the median first-time American bride was almost 28 years old and the median groom almost 30, according to the most recent data available from the Census Bureau. (Ten years earlier, the typical bride was 25.5, the typical groom 27.)
The U.S. marriage rate—the number of new marriages per 1,000 people—has been falling for decades. It fell especially fast during the recession, in 2008 and 2009, but there’s little evidence that people started getting married again even as the economy recovered. And research firm IbisWorld predicts the marriage rate will keep falling over the next five years.
From a global perspective, that wouldn’t be a surprise. The U.S. marriage rate would need to fall by about a third to reach the marriage rates in other developed countries. The most recent data show a U.S. marriage rate of 6.9, compared with an average rate of 4.6 for countries in the European Union.
Are weaker economics the cause, or has marriage gone out of fashion?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday July 31 2017, @10:06PM
The thing about hobby clubs is that they are mostly older people
I have to differ on this one. First of all, here in the DC area there's a bunch of "maker" clubs and other such things on Meetup which seem to have a lot of younger guys. Of course, those kind of clubs aren't much help for finding a date if you're in your 20s-40s.
But the hiking clubs I mentioned, and have some experience with, absolutely seem to function as singles mixers, though they have all ages. Most of the attendees seemed to be single, and it sure seemed like a lot of the people were there to mingle and chat with members of the opposite sex, and they did a lot (I talk in past tense because I have a gf now and haven't been on one of these hikes in a while). Now as I said before, they have all ages, and it did seem like a lot of people were 50+ (though in great shape I'll add), but again they seemed to be looking to mingle.
that most advice is totally off-target, certainly for me at the time.
I totally agree; I've heard plenty of such useless advice myself, like this:
My mother was angry when she realised I'd joined a dating club : she said I should only date girls I "knew already",